Nigel Farage is 'person of interest' in FBI investigation

>“One of the things the intelligence investigators have been looking at is points of contact and persons involved,” one source said. “If you triangulate Russia, WikiLeaks, Assange and Trump associates the person who comes up with the most hits is Nigel Farage.

>“He’s right in the middle of these relationships. He turns up over and over again. There’s a lot of attention being paid to him.”

>The source mentioned Farage’s links with Roger Stone, Trump’s long-time political adviser who has admitted being in contact with Guccifer 2.0, a hacker whom US intelligence agencies believe to be a Kremlin agent.

>Farage’s spokesman said he had never worked with Russian officials, and described the Guardian’s questions about Farage’s activities as “verging on the hysterical”.

>“Nigel has never been to Russia, let alone worked with their authorities,” the spokesman said. But he did not respond to questions about whether Farage was aware of the FBI inquiry; had hired a lawyer in connection to the matter; or when Farage first met Trump.

>The spokesman also declined to comment on whether Farage had received compensation from the Russian state-backed media group RT for his media appearances. RT, which has featured Farage about three times over the last 18 months, also declined to comment, citing confidentiality.

>On Thursday Farage dismissed the story as “fake news”. He said he visited Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in March at the behest of LBC Radio “with a view to conducting an interview”.
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>He added: “I consider it extremely doubtful that I could be a person of interest to the FBI as I have no connections to Russia.”

>Farage has said he only met Assange once has but declined to say how long the two have known each other.

>The FBI’s national press office said it had no comment on Farage.

>The former Ukip leader has voiced his support for the Russian president, calling Vladimir Putin the leader he most admired, in a 2014 interview. Ukip also has history with Assange: Gerard Batten, a Ukip member of the European parliament (MEP), defended the Wikileaks founder in a speech in the European parliament in 2011.

>One source familiar with the US investigation told the Guardian that the examination of Farage’s activities was considered especially delicate given his role as an MEP.

>Neither Farage nor Trump have made a secret of their admiration for one another. They emerged as unlikely winners last year in contests that have reshaped the world order: Britain’s vote to leave the EU and Trump’s surprise ascendency to the White House.

>Both men credited their ability to tap into the worries of struggling and neglected citizens for their victories. But at the heart of the US investigation lies a deeper question: whether Trump campaign officials and people close to the former reality TV star sought to work with state players in Russia to try to influence the US election result.

>Last July, Farage attended the Republican national convention in Cleveland, Ohio, when Trump became the party’s nominee.
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>According to an account by the Ukip donor Arron Banks, Farage first met Trump at a campaign stop in Mississippi in August, where he spoke at a Trump campaign event.

>But Farage’s relationships with people close to the US president began years earlier. Farage first met Steve Bannon, Trump’s strategist and former campaign chief executive, in the summer of 2012, when Bannon, who was interested in rightwing movements in Europe, invited the then Ukip leader to spend a few days in New York and Washington, according to an account in the New Yorker magazine.

>There Farage was introduced to, among others, the staff of the then senator Jeff Sessions, who is now the US attorney general. Speaking of his longtime admiration for Bannon, Farage told the New Yorker last year: “I have got a very, very high regard for that man’s brain.”

>Two years later, in 2014, Breitbart News, of which Bannon was executive chair, opened an office in London. A top editor, Raheem Kassam, later went on to work as Farage’s chief of staff.

>In 2015, Breitbart News arranged a dinner in Farage’s honour at “the embassy”, the nickname for the house the news group rented in Washington. According to a report in Bloomberg, attendees were “blown away” by Farage’s speech at the event, which was also attended by Sessions.

>Then, on 24 June last year, the day after the UK voted to leave the EU, Farage thanked Bannon during an interview for Breitbart News’s coverage of the leave campaign. Bannon, in turn, congratulated Farage on his victory, saying he had led an extraordinary “David v Goliath” campaign.

>Farage’s ties to Stone are also under scrutiny, it is understood. Stone has frequently publicised his relationship with Assange and described him on Twitter as “my hero”.
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GOODY FLYNN IS A WITCH
GOODY PAUL IS A WITCH
GOODY FARAGE IS A WITCH

UNNAMED SOURCES HATH SEEN THEM MAKING A MOST UNHOLY PACT WITH THE VILE DEVIL FORT TO LIVE DELICIOUSLY

>Stone publicly predicted the 2016 release of hacked emails from the Clinton campaign that now lie at the heart of the federal inquiry. Democrats on the House intelligence committee have named Stone in their hearings and, according to the New York Times, he is now under investigation.

>Last summer, just a few weeks before Farage met Trump in Mississippi, Stone bragged about having a “mutual friend” who served as an intermediary between himself and Assange. He also mentioned in a separate tweet that he had dinner with Farage, though the date of the encounter is unclear.

>After Trump’s victory, Farage was one of the first foreign politicians to meet and celebrate with the Republican president-elect, and had his picture taken with Trump in front of a golden elevator in Trump Tower just days after the US election.

>The tweet prompted a curt response from Downing Street, which pointed out that there was “no vacancy”. A spokesman said: “We already have an excellent ambassador.”

>The pair met again in February, when they had dinner together with Trump’s daughter and adviser, Ivanka, and her husband and White House adviser, Jared Kushner.

>Farage was asked about his relationship with Assange in a recent interview with Die Zeit, the German newspaper, after he was seen on 9 March leaving the Ecuadorian embassy where Assange has lived for years. Farage, who declared he had “never received a penny from Russia”, said he met Assange for “journalistic reasons”.
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>Pressed on his meetings with Russian officials in the past, Farage initially denied having had any, but then acknowledged that he had met Alexander Yakovenko, the Russian ambassador to the UK, in 2013.

>Asked by Die Zeit what he was doing now, and whether he saw himself as a politician or a journalist, Farage concluded: “Changing public opinion. That’s what I have been doing for 20 years. Using television, media. Shifting public opinion. That’s what I am good at.”

>A spokesman for Farage told the Guardian he had only met Assange on that one occasion. “The meeting was organised by a broadcaster, they could have easily sent another presenter instead.”

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>>145730
>maybe if I spam the article line for line and word for word across SIX WHOLE POSTS, I can make propaganda into reality!
Protip: You can't.

Stop wasting everyone's time with your tabloid-tier garbage.

>>145723
>theguardian.com
I'll wait for a reputable source, thanks.

The story gets more ridiculous and contrived every time they write another article

>>145723
Let's go Globalists! Bilderburg 2017!!

>>145738
Liberals are trying everything to discredit Trump because they're afraid of him. Good I say. The time of liberalism has come to an end. While they prattle with words, we'll take action. Manly men like Gianforte showed how best to deal with a pansyass liberal when they open their mouths. Remember, you don't need to win in a war of words if you're putting your fist in their face.

>>145731
You must be new here.

>>145745
You act like The Guardian just made it all up.

>>145740
Let's go nationalists! America first 1940!

>>145738
>THEY

>>145734
The guardian is a reputable source. if you don't like mainstream media then gb2/>>>/pol/

>>145838
Sorry, I'm just trying to spread the truth and not some bluepilled lugenpress.

>>145840
This is the board for lugenpresse, young /pol/owan. Read the sticky.

>>145842
Pol/tards like the massive cucks they are vote for him because "lol fuck politically correct" without stopping to think that closing the door to Europe means fewer immigrants will be white.

Now that Brexit is happening UKIP have turned there attention to Muslim immigrants instead of European, /pol/ are more interested in the Tories because backing the winner is what really matters to them.

Unfortunately /pol/ is where stupidity is so ingrained if you bring reason they'll call you a shill.

>>145850
>Closing the door to Europe means less European immigrants
Good, I don't want any immigrants ya cuck

>>145838
>the guardian is a reputable source
Fucking top lel
So are the Huffington Post and the Daily Beast, amirite

>>145986
Take your straw men back to /pol/

>>145989
>implying telling me go to /pol/ isn't a strawman

>>145989
calls out corporate tabloid source = poltard
nice argument

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>>146023
That's nice, Alex Jones, but there is a thing called an objective standard of journalism. I'd tell you to read up on it but you'd think it was all a liberal conspiracy to start with.

Again, if you want to bitch about mainsteam media then you're on the wrong board. This board was made for MSM sources.

>>146122
>bitches about strawmen
>"That's nice, Alex Jones"

>>146142
it isn't a strawman when you repeat verbatim what Alex Jones says like a parrot. There is no discussion for you here if you don't accept the legitimacy of mainstream news sources. They have a board for people like that, >>>/pol/

>>146147
"Only Alex Jones could possibly dislike the Guardian"
What a reasonable position to take.
And "accepting the legitimacy of mainstream sources" is a good way to say "completely abandon critical thought when my favourite news sources are involved"

>>146165
That's nice. If you don't want to take the guardian's word for it then go back to >>>/pol/. I can't say this enough so please go on pretending like The Guardian isn't legitimate.

>>146258
Every single thread the butthurt leftie says go back to >>>/pol/

The whole world is /pol/

You're in the shit now son

>>146261
>whole world is /pol/

do you say these comforting things to yourself to give yourself a hard on when no one is paying attention to you?

>>146261
At the end of the day you're the gibbering moron complaining about your conspiracies when the rest of us just want to talk about the news.

>>146276
News like Covfefe? 2 Scoops? Drumph?

Lol go back to r/worldnews if that's all you want to discuss. You can shout down the well and hear you opinion echo forever.

>>146291
Please, if ypu hang out on reddit, just stay there. You're such a fag for actually namedropping that shit.

>>146291
>You can shout down the well and hear you opinion echo forever.
No that's what YOU want to do. This is a board of fact. If you want to circlejerk about your tinfoilfag alternative fact infowars stories then gb2/>>>/pol/. Not because I'm a liberal (which I'm not),but because that's the board where that shit belongs and not here..

>>146276
Oh sure, continue talking about the lugenpresse. Keep taking the Clinton bluepill until you either poison yourself, or the fash revolution comes to you.

>>146327
Take your activist faggotry back to >>>/pol/

>>146360
We say that because those posters belong on /pol/. This is a board for /news/, not opinions.

>>146398
Who's we?

>>146404
SJWs who want an Leftist safespace

>>145850
>calls others cucks for not being anti white
Lmao, kill yourself SJW

>>146315
>No that's what YOU want to do.
>I know you r but wat am I lmao xd
nice argument moron